The United Nations Calls On The Top Nigerian Hackers To Capture People’s Voices

The United Nations, in collaboration with the Civic Innovation Lab, is organising a Hackathon on 5-7th of Feb 2018 in Abuja. They are calling all developers and problems solvers to register their interest to help us to create a solution that would enable Nigerian Government to efficiently roll out the MY World 2030 survey across the country.

The TOP 3 solutions will be given seed money to compete for a N1,000,000.00 (One Million Naira)prize and Community membership at the Civic Innovation Lab to develop the tool that will be used in the roll out of the survey across Nigeria and around the world. Have the chance to shape this global project for a better world.

The Hackathon is scheduled to take place from Monday, Feb 5th – Wednesday, Feb 7th at the Civic Innovation Lab located at No 54 Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse 2 (Osas & Oseji House) – Abuja, Nigeria, and it is mandatory for all shortlisted candidates to attend.

Deadline for Application is, January 31st, 2018. Participants are to completely fill an online application to be considered.

How to Participate

Applicants must take time to read about the background and solution needed. See more information below.

Participants must completely fill the online application. We will accept the top ideas that will participate in the Hackathon. Participants are free to form teams or work individually. Selection Criteria for the participation in the Hackathon will be based on:

Previous relevant work experience

Idea proposal or statement of interest of not more than 150 words

completed application

Deadline for application is Wednesday, January 31st, 2018

Only selected participants will be communicated to on Feb 1st, 2018 to attend the Hackathon event from Feb 5th, 2018 – Feb 7th, 2018

Contract Selection Criteria include:

Innovative Approach

UI/UX Experience

Identified Problem

Functional Prototype

Presentation Style

Scalability

Credible Data Reference

Eligibility and requirements

Applicants will create prototypes of web, SMS and mobile applications, to address the specific challenge.

Must be willing to attend the Hackathon from Feb 5th, 2018 – Feb 7th, 2018 at the Civic Innovation Lab Abuja, Nigeria.

Must be willing to develop the prototype to a final product completely by Feb 26th, 2018

All members of the team must be willing to sign an agreement for releasing the final code to public as open source

Must be a Nigerian Citizen

Must be above the age of 18

The Challenge

In March 2018, UN SDG Action Campaign working with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on the SDGs will be implementing a national roll out of the MY World 2030 survey (myworld2030.org). Hundreds of Corps Members will be handing out ballots and collecting responses on paper. Thereafter we will need to get these hundreds of thousands of responses collected and entered into the global database following this Exceltemplate.

In a previous survey conducted between 2013-15, millions of paper ballots were shipped across Nigeria. Hundreds of people then had to transcribe the survey responses to the database. Despite the tremendous results achieved, the process required money, time and human resources which could be better spent. Our challenge to you is to help find a solution to help us improve the process and time spent in data collection, collation and entry.

We challenge you to find innovative solutions which would both streamline and automate the current process. The solutions could tackle issues such as how to effectively scan and transcribe the responses, the design of the ballots or the vote collecting technique itself. We encourage you to get creative! You may assume that many of the National Youth Service Corps members will have an android smartphone or tablet, but keep in mind that much of the time, they may be in rural areas, disconnected from internet and other services. The solution must be fully tested and ready to use by the start of March 2018.

Data collected through the app will be written to a MYSQL database hosted by the UN SDG Action Campaign. Permissions to access and write to the database will be given to the finalists. The app will be submitted to the Android Google Play store using the UN SDG Action Campaign account.

The open source solutions provided by the Hackathon will be put in place for the national implementation of MY World 2030 in the first half of 2018. It will also provide a model and system that can be applied to MY World 2030 roll-outs in all other countries, and by partners working at both large and small scale implementation around the world.